Boston Public Library, MS q Med.100
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3452
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.100
- Title:
- Prognostication manual : in Latin, English, and Anglo-Norman].
- Place:
- England]
- Date:
- between 1375 and 1425
- Language:
- Language: Latin, English, and Anglo-Norman
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 227 leaves : paper, ill. ; 212 x 145 (approximately 150-170 x 90-100) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Woodward, Thomas, active 17th century
H.P. Kraus (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Fuerunt ...
Collation: Paper (two stocks: French, similar to Briquet 13906, ca. 1394; similar to Briquet 15858, Paris 1392), fol. 227 ; 114+1 (the detached first leaf is laid-in at the front) 216 314−5 (5 leaves wanting after fol. 39), (lacking a quire of 24, for a total of 36 leaves lacking after fol. 39: 5 from quire 3, a quire of 24, and 7 from the beginning of quire 4), 418(-7 leaves) 514−6 (wanting 6...
Layout: 1 or 2 columns, varies between approximately 20-30 lines. Bounding and writings lines, when present, in drypoint.
Script: Written in English gothic cursive in multiple hands in brown ink with occasional red rubrics. Fol. 1-40 by a single scribe.
Decoration: Phlebotomy diagram, fol. 23v; round astrological/astronomical charts and diagrams on fol. 47, 57, 68v, 69v and 70; pasteboard volvelle mounted inside front cover.
Binding: Deteriorated early/contemporary deerskin(?) over wooden boards, sewn on four split bands, paper pastedowns, decorative green and red endbands. Housed in a gray clamshell box. The detached leaf -- until recently laid-in at the back of the volume and described as such by Kraus -- shows clear signs of having been originally the first leaf of the codex, as it bears an offprint and wear...
Origin: Written in England in the late 14th or early 15th century.
Provenance: 15th-century arms inside front cover, argent on a bend azure three crescents (poss. the Rider family of Yorkshire); 17th-century signature of Thomas Wodword, fol. 39; sold Kraus cat. 22 (1942), no. 21.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1944.
Call number: MS q Med.100.
Former call number: MS 1527.
Bibliography: W.L. Braekman, "Fortune-Telling by the Casting of Dice: a Middle English Poem and Its Background," Studia Neophilologica 52 (1980): 15; S.A. Ive, "An Unpublished Piece of Medieval English Folklore," H. P. Kraus, Rare Books: Notes on the History of Old Books and Manuscripts 1 (1942): no. 21; L. Thorndike and P. Kibre. A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444788
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rj433d736/manifest
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